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Today, the European Parliament voted on the regulation commonly known as “chat
control”, laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material.
Earlier drafts of this bill had posed a severe threat to encryption and privacy,
but recent

- Privacy news
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t

- Privacy basics
Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud storage, which is why you might be
surprised to learn it doesn’t use the most secure encryption algorithms and
doesn’t protect your privacy.
While Dropbox is secure from outside attack, it has suffered da
Proton news
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- Proton news
Each year since 2018, the Proton community has raised funds to support
nonprofits that align with our mission through our Lifetime Account Charity
Fundraiser. With your support, we’ve donated around $2 million to organizations
working to build a bett

Passwords are sensitive information and sharing them isn’t usually recommended.
But sometimes there are good reasons you might want to give other people access
to your logins:
* Sharing your streaming account with your friends
* Giving your partne

You might have heard about quantum computers, a futuristic kind of computer that
can perform certain operations far faster than today’s machines. You might have
also heard that quantum computers will soon break encryption and expose
everyone’s data.
Privacy news
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- Privacy news
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t

On Thursday October 26th, MEPs in the European Parliament held press conferences
outlining the compromises reached within the EU Parliament negotiators on the
controversial Chat Control proposal. The original legal draft, published by the
European Co

As we feared, the UK Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill without making
the necessary changes to safeguard privacy.
The Online Safety Act, as it’s now called, includes a clause that gives the
British government the power to access, collect
Privacy basics
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- Privacy basics
Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud storage, which is why you might be
surprised to learn it doesn’t use the most secure encryption algorithms and
doesn’t protect your privacy.
While Dropbox is secure from outside attack, it has suffered da

- Privacy basics
Like most browsers, Microsoft Edge has a built-in password manager. Can you
trust it, though? Is Microsoft Edge password manager safe?
Overall, while Microsoft Edge password manager seems safe at first, there are
some issues with the way it handles

- Privacy basics
Chances are you’ve deleted a file you shouldn’t have at some point. Getting it
back isn’t always impossible, though, and with some foresight and smart use of
software you might be able to recover it.
Let’s go over the best ways to recover accidenta
Privacy deep dives
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- Privacy deep dives
If a web browser tells you you’re “incognito” and can “browse privately”, you
might assume your online activities are private and no one is collecting your
data. But you’d be wrong.
It’s precisely this ambiguity that has landed Google in the crossha

- Privacy deep dives
In the public eye, Google presents itself as a champion of privacy. “Privacy is
at the heart of everything we do,” its CEO said.
But behind closed doors, Google is telling a different story to policymakers and
actively fighting against privacy laws

- Privacy deep dives
Google has already taken privacy washing to the extreme by trying to brand
itself as “privacy focused”, even though its business model is based on
surveillance.
Lately, the company’s marketing strategy has turned toward outright Orwellian
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